Julius Caesar: A Call to Reflection With the smell of freshly popped popcorn and a gentle hum of excitement in the air, I quietly slipped into my college-budget appropriate seat just two rows from the stage with moments to spare. This would be the second play that I had ever attended at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and once again I had selected a work by the man they named the festival after: Shakespeare. However, instead of the romance of The Tempest, I would witness Shakespeare’s dramatization
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar is going to be crowned king, but Cassius does not think he is capable of ruling over Rome. Because of this he tries to convince Brutus, who is a good friend of Caesar’s, to assist him and some others in killing Caesar. At first Brutus refuses, but he later contemplates more about his decision and determines that Caesar is not strong enough to be king and may go insane with power, causing the citizens of Rome to live in tyranny. At this point, Brutus starts
One of the first wars Julius Caesar encountered was the Gallic War. The city of Gaul was rising just like Rome. However, one day German troops took back their land forcing one Gaul tribe to retreat back their main city. To do this they would have to cross some Roman territory. Gaul thought that this wouldn’t be a problem as they thought of Romans as understanding people. Julius Caesar soon learned about the Gaul tribe’s plans and took an army to the area in which the Gaul tribe would be crossing
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a play about loyalty, betrayal, love, and deception. There are many characters with fairly in-depth personalities. Some of the main characters are Cassius, the crafty, deceptive, witty man who is the leader of the conspiracy that killed Caesar. Brutus, the noble, honest, honorable man who is one of the key members of the conspiracy. There is also Antony, who is Caesar's right hand man. He is shrewd and ruthless man, willing to do anything to get revenge for Caesar's
Act III Scene 2 of Julius Caesar directly follows the scene where Brutus and the other conspirators murder Rome’s leader and general, Julius Caesar. In this scene, Brutus is speaking to a large crowd of citizens, explaining that he killed Caesar not out of hatred, but out of his love for Rome. Marc Antony then enters carrying Caesar’s body; he says that Caesar actually loved his citizens, and even reads them Caesar’s will. Both of these speeches drastically change the opinion of the crowd, which
I had to compare Julius Caesar to one of the following assassinated leaders. The lives of both Julius Ceasar and Abraham Lincoln have many similarities and differences. No one is the same. No one's life can be the same. Some persons life can have similar hardships, but it's never the same to two different people. These two people have similar backgrounds but lived at different times and had different beliefs. Both of these individuals were leaders in the past. People still look up to them in today's
Comparing Julius Caesar with Augustus Introduction. This paper offers background into the life and times of Julius Caesar and Augustus. It also compares and contrasts the two men's positions and accomplishments in the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar According to journalist N.S. Gill, writing in the New York Times affiliate publication, About.com, Julius Caesar was perhaps "…the greatest man of all times." He was a general, a statesman, and he was adroit at mathematics; also he was a "lawgiver
William Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar utilizes the literary element of rhetoric multiple times throughout to show the true power that words can hold. The rhetoric in Caesar accompanies the play’s themes of betrayal, deception, and exaggeration. Brutus uses rhetoric to persuade the crowd of plebeians that the murdering of Caesar was positive and beneficial to all of Rome, winning their support and causing them to join his cause. Soon after, Mark Antony gives a terrifically-persuasive speech
(The Roman Empire). In the play Julius Caesar, the author William Shakespeare uses superstition repeatedly to affect the plot as well as the characters. Superstition in the play is used to foreshadow Caesar’s death, impact Brutus’ actions in the battlefield and to emphasize the Roman’s connection to superstition and fate. One of the biggest superstitious beliefs in Rome at that time was the power to see the future; which Caesar’s future was to die. Julius Caesar was one of Rome’s greatest leaders
persuade people, it can lead to chaos. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays a universal theme in which friends and enemies turn to against each other, and a war stimulates out of lies and ambition for power. The usage of old and wise words to manipulated people lead to great revelry. In the beginning of the play, one important aspect of the theme is when Cassius tries to persuade Brutus to join sides with the party against Julius Caesar. Cassius needs to be clever and convincing, and he